Miller's Valley

A Novel

As a young girl in Miller's Valley, an ordinary farming town that may be facing its final days, Mimi is observing adults, selling corn, growing up and changing, and watching the world around her change, too. As the years go by, the unthinkable starts to seem inevitable. Anna Quindlen's novel takes listeners through the changing eras of Mimi and her family, as secrets are revealed, and the heartbreaks of growing up and falling in love with the wrong man are overcome.

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The reader was pretty good but the boy voices were a touch irritating. Why did they all have a southern drawl? Oh well. The story moved along like a slow river. Kind of what I was expecting. Not a whole lot happens until the end. Then....what? The surprise at the end swirled around the relationship between Mimi's mother and aunt. And that relationship was sparely explored.
I thought that story line would have been the more interesting one to write about. Perhaps a sequel?

Brittany Pressley is an excellent reader : it is amazing she can perform so many different characters with such force and authenticity. The novel focuses on relationships within a family, a small town and a valley about to be purposely flooded a slow read but enjoyable.